The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht Condition: minor scuffing and discolouration due to age.

Format: Paperback Year: 1979 Publisher: Methuen

Description: Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho.

Translation by Ralph Manheim and John Willett, this edition features extensive notes and commentary including an introduction to the play, Brecht's own notes on the play, a full appendix of textual variants, a note by composer Kurt Weill, a transcript of a discussion about the play between Brecht and a theatre director, plus editorial notes on the genesis of the play.